Lavaux
The Lavaux (formerly German Ryf what Ryfwyn, ripe wine ' wine from the Lavaux ') is a wine region in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland on the northeastern shore of Lake Geneva. The most common in Lavaux vine is the Chasselas.
Location
The wine region extends between Lausanne and Vevey over 805 hectares on which steep terraces have been created since the 12th century. In the West, the Lavaux wine region is adjacent to the La Côte, on the east by the Chablais wine region.
Communities
The Lavaux consists of 14 municipalities located in the districts of Lavaux -Oron and Riviera -Pays- d'Enhaut:
- Chardonne
- Chexbres
- Corseaux
- Corsier -sur -Vevey
- Cully
- Epesses
- Grandvaux
Protection
Thanks to a popular initiative, launched by the environmentalist Franz Weber, the Lavaux is protected by the Vaud constitution since 1977.
In December 2005, the Swiss Federal Office of Culture, Lavaux is nominated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The International Council on Monuments and Sites, a sub-organization of UNESCO, UNESCO recommended to the Committee in a report published in May 2007, the Lavaux be included in the list after in August 2006, a representative of the organization who visited the region. On 28 June 2007, recording under the name Lavaux terraces overlooking the lake and the Alps was decided.
Since his opinion is built in Lavaux too much and to contain another property speculation, Franz Weber collected signatures for a new popular initiative. The required number of signatures has been reached in July 2009, a new referendum is thus likely.